Cassie's Cuddles

So everyone loves a selfie these days, but now I know for sure why you hold the camera above your head when you take one :/ So, be honest now, which photo would you like hanging up on your wall?or this one..Not liking he second one? Nah, me either, lol. On another note, I have spent a lot of this week  just waiting. Picking up Lachlan on a really hot day, waiting in the Dr’s office for Cassandra’s appointment for over 2 hours, taking older children to different things, oih! The weather has been so hot here, it actually makes you feel ill. Saying that though, it’s good to be needed right?we had the college commencement service on Friday night (it was soooo hot). It was a good night, Jared led the evening, once again showing his knack for being able to do anything he is asked to do. My husband is one of the most talented men I know, and he is humble about it, which is great. Note to self ” loose five stone, and buy a pretty dress to wear for next one”

My Older children have gone to two weddings in January ( I went to one). It is so lovely to see younger Christian adults get married. I have heard bitter women say “why are they getting married so young, they should travel and study first”, why? Doesn’t even God say that you should rejoice with the wife of your youth? Anyways…I digress. We made another towel cake.I love how my two oldest children looked on the day.The three oldest went to a Onesie party, every heard of one of those? It was a 21st. My children were uncool and didn’t dress up, I would have, but evidently I would have embarrassed them, go figure! The party was for a chap, who takes his onesie wearing seriously (well, that’s another post, lol), most people dressed up for him. What I liked was the way, everyone said lovely things about him, and he responded by saying “Give God the glory” . It is nice to see good clean fun. If you don’t know what a onesie is, this is one

Last week I went to a baby shower, it was lovely. We played a few games, like guess how much everything was (fail), and draw a baby on a piece of paper on the top of your head. I found that I have a talent, who knew!Artistic bunch aren’t we? The host did such a lovely job decorating, and making lots of yummy food.We were asked to write down some advice for child raising on some love hearts to give to the expectant mummy.Stephanie shoved hers into my hand too, so I blabbed on for a bit longer :/My girl has bought a car! Now all she needs is a license! Hopefully by April she will have one we will wait and see.

It has been so lovely to have a family holiday. I wonder if  it might be one of the last ones we have as a complete family, considering that Steph will be 18 in March. We went to Torquay, right next to the beach. I took the kiddies ( or a couple of them) to the beach every day, I love the beach. When we got home we had a few days to catch up on the washing and then we went off again, to Rosebud. We stayed at my sister’s.  It was really relaxing just pottering around. Stephanie had received her entrance into Melbourne University, so they went back at one point to sign up and do what every uni student has to do.During the holiday we also had three birthdays to celebrate. Firstly there was Cassandra’s 7th birthday. We had two families come over, and because Cassie loves craft we got her and her buddies to decorate some plain cheap china cups. They were about $1 and item, and I already had sharpies, so off they went.This is one of the bowls that a child drew, isn’t it cute?Look at this proud little fellow.I’ve already told you about Lachlan’s, but we also had Camden’s. He had a friend over for the night.  Even as I type I am thinking “what do I buy Alycia for her birthday which is on Monday?” ugh! Too many birthdays close together, sooo expensive. But we are thankful for birthdays, it is a sign of blessing, they have lived for another year.

Where has the time gone? I haven’t been very good on my blog have I? Now I can’t remember what I have been up to for the  last few months! I didn’t even tell you about Dayspring Day. Dayspring was in October. This time it was a food theme ( I know a fatty running a food theme children’s day is a little sad). Do you realise how many food analogies that the Bible uses? The obvious is the Fruit of the Spirit, The salt of the earth, Bread of Life…well, you get the picture. I thought it was a good day. I have more helpers now, so things are easier. I ask people what to do, and they turn up and faithfully do it. Of course this involves my own children 😀 Stephanie and Lachlan are still the prayer twins. Jesse came as a giant banana for me, and of course I had Alison be head chef, playing the spoons (she came up with that on her own). Even the PWMU ladies got into the spirit of the day and dressed as the Golden Circle ladies. It was a joy to have some missionaries with us this year, after all this is what the day is all about. I want to encourage the children to be missionaries themselves, he we say we are Christians, we should be sharing the good news about Jesus dying for our sins with everyone. I am hoping to put up some pdfs of Bible charts in case anyone would like to use one. I find them helpful.

Christmas was lovely. We had a few friends over this year, instead of driving for ours to family. I guess that sounds terrible to some, but I think it worked out. It was a more relaxing day, with Church in the morning, followed by a lovely lunch ( if I do say so myself ;). The next day we caught up with family and Gumbaya Park, where I seriously stepped out of my comfort zone. Along with Jared and the children I went on the toboggan ride, the bicycle paddle boats, the go carts with Camden. Seriously, you do not know what fear is until you are the passenger with a 10 year old doing the driving at 30 km and hour! Camden laughed the whole time, and he would turn to me and say “are you scared?” and when he did, the whole car would head in the direction he was looking, towards the wall. Anyhow I survived. We also played mini golf ( a lesson in patience/frustration). I am a cheat, that is all I will say on the subject.

After Christmas I started the big “Do I really need this?” drive. Seriously I have so much stuff. I don’t want it, and yet I am attached to it. I have given away a lot of stuff, it feels so good. I can feel the difference in the air. Ok, so no one else can yet, but they will soon ( insert evil laugh now..mwhaaa), you know what I am talking about, don’t you ladies.We have had a serious problem with huntsman (spiders) in our house right now. We have had 9 in our house in the last two weeks, I have found all but two. I hate them, they are so scary for me, it is the only time you will find me screaming. I have to be honest and say that it is actually Alycia and Stephanie who kill the majority of them. I tried spraying lavender on the windows, because I read that they don’t like the smell. Well, don’t believe everything you  read :/ I have been bitten by a huntsman, it was  red  and smaller. It was in my washing up glove. Boy, did it hurt. I was pregnant at the time, so I called the poison info, my finger swelled straight away, but went down in an hour. So now, Alycia thinks that I am attracting them because I have their venom in my blood. Lovely thought.